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The She]- ton sells all of its empties to Grifen- hagen except Chili-sauce bottles, which it ships to the sauce factory itself, get- ting a credit of fifty cents a dozen. This shows how old bottles can run In to money. Naturally, a great part of Mr. Grifenhagen's business is in ginger-ale, \Vhite Rock, and liquor bottles. The Canada Dry company uses about a hundred and ten million bottles a year, and a lot of them are emptied here. As long ago as thirty-five years Mr. Grifenhagen was doing business with - ......... 4 . -ôtìb01)j;ti)JI. I't ....- . :..:,' ":""'",!>, ' . .. .""->..;. . .\::>- . ....". =: " .:. " .." ":'.NtIIJ/J'''''.'>ÕI'' " :.. h. y:,,!, : ":":' . . .........: .-' ..,./ ". t \/. . ',,$ . )' f:' . " lt[: :., : rç 6 "2;>' . .:::\,: . ] : >\;,, ) . ">" '...."', J ",.-.:' :,"\; ." .' '.t . " > ,)J ,r the WhIte Rock bottling works on a <- carload basis. In the course of this he hit on a method (the Grifenhagen method) of stacking empty bottles in a car and shipping them in bulk. The White Rock people didn't think it could be done because breakage would be so great. Grifenhagen packed the bottles neck to neck, tightly, so that they dove- tailed neatly, and out of four hundred and fifty gross shipped that way only a hundred .bottles or so were broken. I t was a historic moment. Since then every bottle company in America has shipped its bottles in bulk, saving the cost of crates and space. Before prohibition, Mr. Grifenhagen says, only twenty per cent of the bot- tles his concern handled were liquor containers; no\v about thirty per cent of them are. The pint-flask type of bottle predominates, and Scotch and Rye are the labels most frequently en- countered. Gin quarts are next. Nat- urally there's a good market for old liquor bottles. Sentimentalists fill them up with tears, and so forth. Mr. Grifenhagen has a fine disdain for the 01' -clothes- an type of bottle MARCH 22.) 19.30 dealer; there are a lot of them, mostly Italians, and they collect their bottles from city dumps, paying for the rIght. They don't have trucks. All Mr. Grifenhagen's bottles are clean and new-looking. .A used bottle, he tells ) ou, is better than a new one, and bot- tling companies prefer them. Break- age is considerable in new bottles '-' \vhereas old ones are like soldiers who have been through battle. They are tested and true. The bottle man has had quite a political career. He was register of New York County from 1910 to 191 +, the only Republican to have held the job in ninety years, and he . was sheriff in 1914 and 1915, the predeces'sor of Al Smith in that office. Al calls him "Sheriff" when they meet. Grifenhagen and Smith were '-' the last two sheriffs who worked on a fee basis. The sheriff in those days got twel ve thousand dollars a year and half of all fees for services. The job was worth one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in a good year. F1ttility A FLUTTERY lady, pretty, in a small coupé, got mixed up about things on the Avenue on \Vednesday and drove right past a red light. The traffic policeman me tioned her in to the curb and went over to her car. "Didn't you hear me blow my whistle?" he asked. "No," said the lady. "Didn't you see me hold up my hand to you?" "No," she said, and shook her head meekly. He stared at her a long mo- ment, not angrily, really, just reproach- fully. "\Vell," he said at last, "I guess I might just as well go home." Painter in Town F o R a few days last week, Henri Matisse was in town, but nobody much knew it. He is now sixty, hand- some, and looks like a doctor. While here he spent most of his time walking up and down Park A venue, or looking out of his window in the thirtv-first floor of the Ritz Tower. He would like to be ten years younger so he could move to New York, which he describes " . ." d h k as majestIc an w ose s yscrapers surprise him because they compose well. He dined at Childs, saw a show or two, sleeping through them, and was taken to the Paramount-that being the one thing in New York he asked to see. There, too, he slept. Once he awoke to see two terrible organs emerging out